- August 27, 2020
Guest post: Learning from the contentious history of ‘carbon removal’
Dr Wim Carton and Prof Jens Friis Lund
Large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), also referred to as “negative emissions”, is increasingly seen as a key component of climate change mitigation pathways that limit warming to 1.5C or 2C. While much of the climate literature tends to frame the various CDR approaches as novel and untested, in fact CDR has a longer and, in many ways, more tangible- and contested- history than this framing suggests, lessons from which are discussed in a recent paper in WIREs Climate Change.
